Dr Anouk Ride and Dr Tania Miletic from the Initiative for Peacebuilding at University of Melbourne examined ways out of escalating conflicts between the West, China and the Pacific over an intended security deal in two articles published today. An article in The Guardian looks at ways Australia, China and Solomon Islands can demilitarise and descalate tensions locally and regionally, read more here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/05/tensions-are-high-between-china-and-australia-over-solomon-islands-but-its-in-everyones-interests-to-simmer-down while another article in Pursuit looks specifically on what Australia can do to better balance its support to countries in the Pacific to prevent conflict https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/stepping-carefully-amid-conflict-in-the-pacific
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